Is this art?

All the competition categories at the Festival of Quilts are open competitions, ie anyone who fulfills the entry criteria may enter and have hung, a quilt.  However there is one exception and that is the Fine Art Quilt Masters, which is a juried competition and is judged by a panel of leading figures drawn from both the art and quilting worlds.  Anything goes!  Here are just a few we liked that are on offer in this year's gallery:

Sara Impey, social fabric

Helen Parrot, Nine yards or thereabouts 

Helen Parrot, detail.

Maria Thomas, Borrowed ( Henry Matisse, Tom and me)

Alison Garrett, Headlines 2015

Alison Garrett (detail)

Sarah Welsby, To thine own self be true

Sarah Welsby, detail

Julie Bunter, Layers of meaning: define art quilt

Jette Clover, In other words

Jette Clover, detail

Mary Bird, The Stour in winter

Ruth Singer, Criminal Quilt.  Winner

Leah Higgins, Ruins 5

Liesbeth Williams, The lie of the land

Janet Twinn, Green Blooms

Anne Smith, Gabriel is missing.

Jackie Ketley, Betty.

Jackie Ketley, detail.